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Sarah L. Lewis
Faculty Research Assistant
OSU Department of Geosciences

November 2006, Debris flow from Mt Hood redirects Eliot Creek.
 
Contact
email: sarah.lewis@oregonstate.edu
phone: 541.750.7325
fax: available upon request
office: Forestry Sciences Laboratory 287
mail: USDA Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Research Station
3200 SW Jefferson Way

Corvallis, OR 97331
 
Education
MS in Geology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont (1999) - thesis research page
BS in Geological Sciences, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (1996)
 
Research Interests

The influence of extreme events (floods, hurricanes, earthquakes) on watershed morphology and evolution.

 
Publications (complete CV)

Grant, G.E., Lewis, S.L., Swanson, F. & McDonnell, J., in press. Effects of forest practices on peakflows and consequent channel response: a state-of-science report for western Oregon. PNW-GTR-XXX. Portland, OR: U.S.D.A. Forest Service, PNW Research Station XXXp.

Tague, C., Farrell, M., Grant, G. Lewis, S. and Rey, S. 2007. Hydrogeologic controls on summer stream temperatures in the McKenzie River basin, Oregon, Hydrologic Processes 21: 3288–3300.

Jefferson, A., Grant, G., and Lewis, S., 2007. A river runs underneath it: geological control of spring and channel systems and management implications, Cascade Range, Oregon. In M.J. Furniss, C.F. Clifton, and K.L. Ronnenberg, eds. Advancing the Fundamental Sciences: proceedings of the Forest Service national earth sciences conference. PNW-GTR-689. Portland, OR: U.S.D.A. Forest Service, PNW Research Station. p391-400.

Grant, G.E., Schmidt, J.C. and Lewis, S.L. 2003. A Geological Framework for Interpreting Downstream Effects of Dams on Rivers (pdf). in J.E. O'Connor and G.E. Grant eds.  A Peculiar River. American Geophysical Union, p209-225.

as Sarah L. Brown
Brown, S.L., Bierman, P.R., Lini, A., Davis, P.T., and Southon, J., 2002.  Reconstructing lake and drainage basin history using terrestrial sediment layers:  Analysis of cores from a post-glacial lake in New England.  Journal of Paleolimnology 28: 219-236.

Benson, B.E., Atwater, B.F., Yamaguchi, D.K., Amidon, L.J., Brown, S.L. and Lewis, R.C., 2001.  Renewal of Tidal Forests in Washington State after a Subduction Earthquake in A.D. 1700.  Quaternary Research 56: 139-147. [abs only]

Brown, S.L., Bierman, P.R., Lini, A., and Southon, J., 2000.  10 000 yr record of extreme hydrologic events.  Geology 28: 335-338.

Ridge, J.C., Besonen, M.R., Brochu, M., Brown, S., Callahan, J.W., Cook, G.J., Nicholson, R.S., and Toll, N.J., 1999.  Varve, paleomagnetic and 14C chronologies for late Pleistocene events in New Hampshire and Vermont.  Geographie Physique et Quaternaire 53: 79-106.

 
 

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